Reset password in Vista running VMFusion

How can I connect to Windows Vista on a Mac under VMWare Fusion when you don't know the password?  Vista has been installed using VMWare Fusion in 9/08.  No password is needed to connect to Windows Vista.  Now in 11/08, after not having used Vista in a few weeks (2 months after installation), it asks me a password that I did not know that I have created.  I tried "*" (without the quotation marks), the VMWare Fusion Easy Install password and several other obvious passwords without success.  Vista requires you to reset your password every 2 months?

Vista of the message "the user name or password is incorrect".  Trying to reset the password, the password reset Wizard don't ask for a floppy drive when there is no floppy drive on the Mac.

Is there a way to reset the password without having to re - install Vista?

socalmagpie wrote:

I checked the 'others' on the o/s during the installation of the PasswordResetDisc in options of VMWare Fusion.

You don't have to install anything or create a virtual machine in order to use the tool's password!

All you need to do is fix the image cd080802.iso to CD/DVD drive of the Vista virtual machine via its settings and start the Virtual Machine Vista from the CD/DVD.

Consult the help file to see how to assign an ISO Image on CD/DVD the correct VMware Virtual Machine, not one you just created in order to use this tool, which is not necessary and probably why you can even see the virtual hard disk that is correct because as I have already said, it seems that you do not work with the basics correctly the machine virtual on the previous attachment of files and image.

To start the Virtual Machine after you have attached to the correct virtual machine, you may have some difficulties and you can thank VMware for this because they do not it is easy to start an Image of CD/DVD/ISO after a Virtual Machine is created because the Virtual Machine boots so fast, it is difficult to make appear the Start Menu and you may manually change the .vmx file of the The target VM to either add a delay to change the boot order in the BIOS.

Take a look at my answer in the following thread for additional information that can hel to allow the start of the Image of CD/DVD/ISO. You can ignore the first paragraph about VMware SCSI drivers because the password reset tool works as is, so you can start reading at "If the Virtual Machine is not boot from the CD/DVD or ISO Image then select the CD-ROM in the Boot Menu." Re: Reinstlling Windows

> Would it be why it does not recognize the Windows software as a specific device?

Another interesting element is that I allocated 80 GB of space for VMWare Fusion program.  It is NOT partitioned in Boot Camp.

Please review the message private as well as the other answers, that I made in this thread.

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